Version 1.0.4 – American Truck Simulator driver westernization mod
Newer Additional Female Drivers mod found here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3799245288
Release notes:
1.0.4
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Name tweaks, fixed a lot of duplicates. I just published another mod, a variation on this one. The new mod keeps all the changes that this one makes, but it also adds 250 new female drivers. A lot of people seem to want that. This one won’t be abandoned because I know there are people who don’t need/want more drivers, so I’ll keep developing them in parallel.
1.0.3
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About a hundred new replacement photos, mostly men.
1.0.2
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Fixed typo in names (Hanna to Hannah)
First 70 male avatars are done. By far the hardest part is finding a source for AI headshots that either A) don’t all look the same or B) don’t look like aliens
1.0.1
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Real person “Iwona B.” name restored
Novelty names (Harry P., Tina T., Arnold S.) removed – they are fun but immersion-breaking
Some AI faces were changed:
Like many of you, the ridiculous supermodel photos on some other mods is more immersion-breaking than the bad pictures. The original image-generation process
I used on the photos was OK, but the suggestion of varying ages, weathered faces, work clothes, etc, was a good one.
Name change across all locales:
Initially the renaming only applied to the GB and US English locales, but I got to thinking, even if you speak Mongolian, if you’re playing American Truck
Simulator and hiring American drivers, you should expect them to have American names.
I’ve started on the men, but their photos are even worse and I’m having to generate a ton of them.
1.0.0
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Initial release
It seems that when SCS was creating American Truck Simulator, that they just ported the names and photos for the AI drivers straight from European Truck Simulator. A lot of the names and faces are distinctly eastern European. While there’s nothing wrong with that, in my opinion the immersion suffers when you’re trying to hire American drivers.
This mod replaces the names of most of the drivers; Americanizes them, if you will. I didn’t just slam random American names into the game, I tried to keep the feel and distribution of names consistent (Ondrej became Andrew, Petr to Peter, for example).
This also replaces a number of the female avatar photos. Some were photos that looked very foreign, some were just bad photos. All the replacement pictures are AI generated and I kept the ethnic/racial distribution consistent with the base game. I’ll eventually do this for the males too, but there are fewer females so I started there.
I’m given to understand that some of the drivers in the base game are actually real people, with names and photos of beta testers, staffers, youtube personalities, etc. I respect this and think it’s pretty cool, but I don’t know who was who, and I didn’t put effort into preserving those entries. Leave a comment if someone was replaced who should not have been, and I’ll look at it for the next version/update.

Credits:
The_Banana_Man

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